Admission

The Admission process at Christ Church Episcopal School is student-centered. We look for the brightest students in the upstate, those with intelligence, character, and an eagerness to learn. We look forward to getting to know each applicant and his or her family personally.

Academics

In addition to providing small class sizes where our high-quality faculty can focus on each individual student, our curriculum is challenging and rewarding, emphasizing unique learning opportunities and a global view.

Arts

Strong arts programming is at the core of our curriculum in each division, housed in state-of-the-art classrooms and facilities, promoting creativity, social development, self-discipline, and confidence in each and every student.

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School Life

An education is for life, and the complete package of academics, athletics, arts and extracurricular activities underpinned with a faith-based environment, allow CCES students to emerge with a wonderful combination of creativity, confidence, and accomplishment.

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Visual Arts

Lower School

In the Lower School visual arts program, a variety of 2-D and 3-D media are presented as students explore the creative process through drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, fiber arts, etc. Primer students have two 40 minute classes each week. Grades 1-4 have one 40 minute class each week. Visiting artists present special programs during the year for each grade, where students create individual and group projects for the permanent collection. Students practice basic art skills and techniques each year while learning to apply the elements and principles of design to express their ideas, experiences, and imagination.

The PYP Units of Inquiry provide a relevant and authentic context for students to respond creatively through media to classroom topics. At each grade level, students investigate artists, artworks, and cultures. They learn about the purposes of art in the past and present. They recognize many different kinds of art and participate in making informed judgments about artworks. Fourth graders present a weekly Art Review to the school audience. They inform about the many ways to create, enjoy, and interpret artwork. 3rd and 4th grade students can participate in a weekly extracurricular program, Art Club.

Middle School

The Middle School Art curriculum is designed to engage students in art through a concentrated study of drawing, collage, self-portrait, painting, and clay. In addition to building art-making skills, art projects within these media seek to connect to a middle school student’s natural interests and promote self-understanding by means of self-expression. A supplementary focus is placed on conservation issues through environmental art projects and the use of recycled materials.

The program also seeks to enrich students’ understanding of other subjects. Through interdisciplinary and correlative approaches to the teaching of art, students learn to make important connections between art, creativity and other subject information.

Idea development is encouraged by studying art history, directly observing nature, and exploring one’s own imagination. Aesthetic perception is heightened by lessons and activities that allow students to see and work with the elements of art and principles of design. Finally, an artist-in-residence program allows students to participate in special projects lead by a visiting professional artist each year.

Upper School

A wide variety of Upper School electives are available to students who are interested in refining their abilities and learning more about art, ceramics, photography, graphic design and much more. Classes range from fundamentals of art, sculpture, and ceramics, to AP and IB art classes, as well as classes in digital media, journalism, photography, and documentary film. Shows are presented year round in the CCES Art Gallery.